[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2017-06-29 Thread Bryan Quigley
** Changed in: unity-2d Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: unity-2d (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947468 Title: Alt summoning

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-04-02 Thread Albert Astals Cid
For the people having the problem with the HUD being triggered incorrectly under unity-2d it would be great if you could install the unity-2d packages at my PPA https://launchpad.net/~aacid/+archive/ppaprecise/ and do the following after upgrading open a terminal killall unity-2d-shell killall

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
So I've been playing with unity-2d on my MBP running Precise natively. While the inadvertent HUD invocation is somewhat less annoying, it still comes up quite often when it's not wanted. Please provide a way to tune, remap, or disable this! -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-21 Thread Clint Byrum
just FYI, that change was not permanent... getting HUD quite often again. Is there anything interesting in the xev output I pasted? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947468 Title: Alt

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 21, 2012, at 02:51 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: just FYI, that change was not permanent... getting HUD quite often again. Is there anything interesting in the xev output I pasted? Another question. From a running, logged in system, what is the most definitive way to tell whether you're

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-21 Thread Michał Sawicz
Dnia 2012-03-21, śro o godzinie 15:13 +, Barry Warsaw pisze: Another question. From a running, logged in system, what is the most definitive way to tell whether you're running 2d or 3d? $ ps aux | grep unity-2d Should do. There are some visual differences, too, like the dash not flowing

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 21, 2012, at 04:17 PM, Michał Sawicz wrote: $ ps aux | grep unity-2d % ps aux | grep unity-2d barry 3024 0.0 1.3 178948 26904 ?Sl 10:01 0:03 unity-2d-panel barry 3025 0.0 2.8 416760 57520 ?Sl 10:01 0:04 unity-2d-shell barry 4438 0.0 0.0 4368

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-20 Thread Michał Sawicz
Dnia 2012-03-19, pon o godzinie 22:29 +, Barry Warsaw pisze: I guess the question is what rapid means. In Unity 2d, I can press the Alt key, hold it for a second or two, then release it, and it will invoke the HUD. On Unity 3d, this (i.e. a two second hold of ALT) will not invoke the

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 20, 2012, at 08:40 AM, Michał Sawicz wrote: Dnia 2012-03-19, pon o godzinie 22:29 +, Barry Warsaw pisze: I guess the question is what rapid means. In Unity 2d, I can press the Alt key, hold it for a second or two, then release it, and it will invoke the HUD. On Unity 3d, this

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-20 Thread Oliver Grawert
i see the same issue here, i often alt-tab between windows with one hand while marking and pasting with the mouse. if i release tab but keep my finger close to alt (sometimes touching it) during this process the HUD gets in my way. this behavior forces me to take away my hand from the kbd all the

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-20 Thread Clint Byrum
Outer window is 0x421, inner window is 0x422 PropertyNotify event, serial 8, synthetic NO, window 0x421, atom 0x27 (WM_NAME), time 13657013, state PropertyNewValue PropertyNotify event, serial 9, synthetic NO, window 0x421, atom 0x22 (WM_COMMAND), time 13657013, state

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-20 Thread Michał Sawicz
Dnia 2012-03-20, wto o godzinie 14:59 +, Clint Byrum pisze: I think 500ms is *way* too low a threshold, and a different heuristic needs to be used to determine whether or not a user wants the HUD. I alt-tab constantly, rapidly, and the HUD comes up every time unless I hold down alt-tab

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 20, 2012, at 03:16 PM, Michał Sawicz wrote: No no, it's not that we treat every alt press under 500ms as an alt tap. We only treat it as one _if_ no other key was pressed (thus, any shortcut shouldn't ever trigger the HUD). Worst thing is none of us can reproduce your issues... I wonder

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-20 Thread Clint Byrum
Ok, so weird data point, I tried swapping alt/win back to default, and that did not fix it. But then I logged out/back in, and the behavior went away. I have been having odd race issues with X not working at bootup with my keyboard/trackpad... I wonder if this is part of it. -- You received

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-19 Thread Clint Byrum
Hopefully we'll get to it... This has made Unity-2D almost unusable. Alt-Tab now means switch windows and start searching there instead of switch windows. This means as I type this, if I alt-tab to my terminal where my IRC client is running, and start typing, it searches the terminal's windows.

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-19 Thread Gerry Boland
Hi, of course we don't want to push something that causes standard behaviours to break. However in my and my team's testing, Alt+Tab works perfectly fine. HUD only appears for a single rapid tap of the Alt key, Alt+anything else does not show HUD. We're unable to reproduce this behaviour, and

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 19, 2012, at 02:46 PM, Gerry Boland wrote: of course we don't want to push something that causes standard behaviours to break. However in my and my team's testing, Alt+Tab works perfectly fine. HUD only appears for a single rapid tap of the Alt key, Alt+anything else does not show HUD. I

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-06 Thread Didier Roche
This is for -3d case, for unity-2d, it seems to be different (even if there are not that many false positive). I'm only targetting it to -2d now. ** Package changed: unity (Ubuntu) = unity-2d (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-06 Thread Didier Roche
This is fixed (and a duplicate of) bug #923410, on priority list, #1 on the list. However, releasing unity 5.6 is blocked for some days on quite few release critical bugs… -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-06 Thread Vincent Ladeuil
@Barry: to work around modifiers being stealed ;) I've used different ones via xmodmap, so I can use EmHcs with meta, hyper and super without worrying about Alt. That's only a short term workaround though as I really want to try the HUD:-/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 06, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Vincent Ladeuil wrote: @Barry: to work around modifiers being stealed ;) I've used different ones via xmodmap, so I can use EmHcs with meta, hyper and super without worrying about Alt. That's only a short term workaround though as I really want to try the HUD:-/

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-05 Thread Barry Warsaw
** Also affects: unity-2d Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947468 Title: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs To manage

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-05 Thread Marc Deslauriers
I'm getting this issue also when I use virtual machines that uncapture the mouse with Shift-Alt. It's pretty annoying to have the HUD pop up every time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-05 Thread Jean-Baptiste Lallement
I'm also working a lot with VMs for testing and this interferes with CTRL+ALT to exit the viewer or worst ALT+arrow to switch console. As a workaround, the gconf key for the HUD key is /apps/compiz-1/plugins/unityshell/screen0/options/show_hud and you can unset it with: gconftool -t string -s

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Hope
You can be naughty: install ccsm, configure the Unity plugin, and disable the 'Key to show the HUD' shortcut. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947468 Title: Alt summoning of

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-05 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947468 Title: Alt

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-05 Thread Dave Walker
I used 'ccsm' to change the keybinding (Under Unity), because it was interfering with irssi. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947468 Title: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-05 Thread Barry Warsaw
Thanks for the suggestions, but I'm not sure they work for Unity 2D (which I have to use). E.g. % gconftool -g /apps/compiz-1/plugins/unityshell/screen0/options/show_hud % and yet the HUD still gets summoned on Alt. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-05 Thread Gerry Boland
Hey Barry, Unity2D doesn't use those settings, they're Unity only. The Alt key is hardcoded in unfortunately. This could be made a setting if enough people want it. I advise opening a bug asking for the Alt key to be a dconf option, and hopefully we'll get to it. -G -- You received this bug

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-05 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 05, 2012, at 11:39 PM, Gerry Boland wrote: Unity2D doesn't use those settings, they're Unity only. The Alt key is hardcoded in unfortunately. This could be made a setting if enough people want it. I advise opening a bug asking for the Alt key to be a dconf option, and hopefully we'll get